Violation of safety regulations could be the most likely cause of the explosions on submarine Sindhurakshak because of which it sank, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has said.Rogozin, who was quoted by Russia's official news agency Itar Tass, has said India had raised no questions over the technical aspects of the submarine built and recently overhauled by Russia.
Quoting experts, he told the news agency that the violation of safety regulations was the most probable cause of the accident on Wednesday.
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Serbia only has 3 MiG-29Bs and 1 MiG-29UB left in its inventory. Most of the MiG-29s were either shot down or destroyed on the ground in March 1999. Its original number was 14 MiG-29Bs and 2 MiG-29UBs. One MiG-29B (s/n 18105) was lost in 2009 during a training flight. This aircraft was initially used for spares in 1999 after it crash landed. The remaining aircraft and the example that crashed in 2009 were overhauled in 2008, with its service life extended by 700 flight hours. The remaining MiG-21s are to be retired in 2018, so that replacement of both the MiG-21s and MiG-29s is imminent within the next five years. The aircraft that is financially the best preferable - with a Russian loan - is the MiG-29M2, as most - if not all other - modern aircraft are far too expensive for the vulnerable post-war Serbian economy. The selection of the Russian MiG also underlines the old military ties between the two countries.
ReplyDeleteMost probably a correct assertion, but coming as it does, it still smacks of a bureaucratic toady covering his @ss.
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